John Evarts Barry (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Red cloth, titled black. Minor marks on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. red boards, with some wear to edges and corners, some minor fading to spine, minor wear and scuffing etc otherwise a very good tight clean copy. no date circa 1960? the Sherriff and Coroner of Biscocho are examining the old Gila gold mine - they have received an anonymous call that a stolen car fracket is using the place to strip off the licence plates etc, but they have also been told there was a murder in the vacinity. when they drain a pool they find a skeleton that has been there about 20 years - buried up to its waist in concrete! Book.

The Thriller Book Club. Good book, no DJ. Some foxing. [0906].

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Black cloth, gilt 256 pp Spine slightly rubbed, otherwise Very Good condition. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original blue cloth. Inscription rubbed out at ffep. Dampstain to rear board bottom corner, very slightly affects rear endpage. Pages slightly toned. Tight and square. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Black cloth titled in gilt on spine. Tight and almost square, tidy boards, light foxing in endpapers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: vg/good. Thriller Book Club edition 1950s hardcover vg condition book good dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wear/marking to original dust jacket. Foxing/tanning to end papers and page edges. Book is undated but previous owners inscription dated 1954.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club. Book Club Hardback in jacket. Undated: circa 1953. Clean & tight book. BROWNED PAGES. Flat pages. No inscriptions. Jacket has a few short closed tears. Jacket is now under clear removable protective covers. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref F-STW. Skeleton in Concrete by John Evarts Barry. The Thriller Book Club Edition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Inscribed to the author's editor (at length!) and signed on front endpaper ('To my favorite editor J.P. Hall of the California Mining Journal who has the guts and the good will to tell the paper money bags to go to hell! With affection regards from the author John E. (Evarts) Barry, Victorville - 1954, who once again thanks the British publishers after America's gave me the cold shoulder! JEB'). Ink note on front endpaper states 'These books not on sale in America! Sold only in the 'colonies' S. Africa, India, Australia, N. Zealand.' Jacket rubbed with minor loss from spine ends, pages toned. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1953 Hard Cover. 256 pp. From the jacket: "Sheriff Bill Hoe and Coroner Slim Blevins, of Biscocho, Vaca County, near the Mexican Border, are up with the police at the long-discussed Gila gold mine, twenty-five miles out in the desert. They have been tipped off that this is where stolen cars have their licence plates, engine numbers, etc., stripped. They have also been tipped off that they may discover evidence of an old murder in the vicinity. During their search inside one of the tunnels leading into the mine they find a deep pool, and when this is drained they discover a skeleton, encased from the waist down, in a barrel of concrete. The skeleton has been there for nearly twenty years. Who was the skeleton and why did he die? This is the problem which Sheriff Hoe has to solve, and his investigations provide a fast-moving, action-filled thriller, with plenty of humour and excellent characters. Signed by author.

Condition: Fine. Hard back. Book in Fine condition. Wonderful period art work dust wrapper has tiny nicks to spine ends and in Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Hardcover. 12mo. Pp 192. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered black on spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "To Dana from a Californian desert neighbour and fellow newspaper [reader] - John E. Barry, Victorville, California, 1952." From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction - crime novel set in a Californian Gold-mine. Faint rubbing at spine and corner tips, slight small white spot at spine lettering with very faint foxing to preliminaries and edges of text block, otherwise sound, clean, very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original blue cloth. Inscribed to the ffep by Barry. Joints/edges rubbed, points exposed, slightly canted. Dampstain to block edge enters rear endpage and slightly enters a few page margins, very faintly. Many pencilled quotations to rear endpages. The DJ in mylar is toned to spine, chipped to spine ends and points, has address blanks filled out on rear flap, and small mark to front flap. Small dampstain to rear panel edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; Signed by Author.